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Adopted could fix that, but even if it doesn't, Halflings are again intended to be the premier sling-users.
Nope, racial heritage doesn't work because you have to have the Warslinger racial trait. Racial Heriatage won't let you take that.
Adopted doesn't. A racial trait is an option for races only. It's not the same thing as a trait with the [race] descriptor that adopted allows.
And halflings are not the only culture that would use slings. If I want to play a primitive Kellid tribeman that uses the sling to hunt, or gnome who is obsessed with spinning things to fight the bleaching, I should not be limited by not being a halfling. I can't even be a halfling that learned to run fast.
There should be an alternate entry requirement for the style beyond a specific racial trait.
You can LEARN to use a longbow very quickly. It's just a bow.
To be conditioned to use a bow repeatedly with a 100 lb draw strength...yeah, THAT took a good amount of time. But that's a 'stat' problem, not a 'weapon training' problem.
Eh... you can learn to fire a longbow very quickly. Learning to consistently hit moving targets at variable range in differing wind conditions takes a wee bit longer.
"To train a longbowman you begin by training his grandfather."
Well, yeah, nobody gains feats, levels and BAB overnight.
Except PC's.
===Aelryinth
adventurer with a Handy Haversack?
==Aelryinth
Ersatz of my gestalt Fighter//Destined Bloodrager 20 character based on Samson that uses Catch Off-Guard, Weapon Focus (Jawbone of Ass), and Advanced Weapon Training (Focused Weapon (Jawbone of Ass))?
Edit: Fixed subject-verb agreement
Hey! He said "an" ______. You have to start it with a vowel, goshdangit!
==Aelryinth
Hey! He said "an" ______. You have to start it with a vowel, goshdangit!
==Aelryinth
e is a vowel.
Yeah, I fixed it after Aelryinth pointed out the inconsistency with what I originally wrote. "My gestalt Fighter//Destined Bloodrager..."
Nope, racial heritage doesn't work because you have to have the Warslinger racial trait. Racial Heriatage won't let you take that.My only complaint about slipslinger style is that it's impossible to make a decent slinger who isn't a halfling.Or Human, Half-Elf or Half-Orc, thanks to Racial Heritage.
But slings are generally a halfling thing anyway.
Mythic racial heritage does.
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Thank you Paizo.
I have said these words many times and will likely continue to do so. This and many other threads over the years have illustrated the frustrations with slings: not that we need them to do the SAME things as bows but to have equally interesting options.
They delivered.
Sure, you've gotta be a Halfling. Sure, not all of the feats are perfect. But now you've got the chance, between Slipslinger, the other new styles and the Ranged Tactics book to use a sling to deliver accurate shots, deal modest damage, drop energy cheaply on your attacks and also disarm or trip from range.
And you can do it all with a SINGLE weapon, the Halfling racial weapon.
Halflings everywhere are FINALLY holding their chins up. No longer are they JUST the slaves and peons of the other PC races. I can imagine a group of Halfling slaves, tottering around an playing up to their overlord, all the while fixing a handkerchief to the handle of a garden trowel and smiling...
Congratulations on figuring out how your racial weapon works. Only a couple thousand years behind the rest of us.
Typical Slips.
Congratulations on figuring out how your racial weapon works. Only a couple thousand years behind the rest of us.
Typical Slips.
And with an an added feat tax, of course.
Why does a race with a strenth penalty specialize in slings, anyway?
Why does a race with a strenth penalty specialize in slings, anyway?
Simple. Do YOU want to carry around ammo with that reduced strength or do you want to pick it up as you go?